+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 13 of 13

Thread: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

  1. #1

    Default Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    My fellow Wesleyan alum Jim Vincent posted this demotivational poster today. Not sure where it comes from, alas. He is afflicted with co-workers who play golf and refer to him as a LARP-er. So this was pretty perfect for him.

    I wish the SCA -- Society for Creative Anachronism for the uninitiated -- were less sexually repressed. I'm totally turned on my armor, but so many of the folks who make it and wear it are all oogie weird about sex.

    I'm not turned on by golf clubs or even really...
    Read the full article

  2. #2
    Mr Karl's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    toronto
    Posts
    4,725

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    I was in the sca for a while......it was alright, but except for the tuchux I found them all a little dull. Kind of funny recreating the dark ages with things like rules and honor and on and on. And yeah, they should lay off the sex and everclear, it makes them go wierd.

  3. #3
    Mr Karl's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    toronto
    Posts
    4,725

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    I would like to learn to play golf sometime............now that I'm getting older those nice big well manicured lawns look sort of peacefull

  4. #4
    and the porridge was just
    Join Date
    Apr 2009
    Location
    ao
    Posts
    386

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    mini golf because i am wonderfully awful at it

  5. #5

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    Golf stands for everything that is horrible without being fun. It's like somebody sliced up some suits and ties and blue ballpoint pens, boiled them into a homogenous paste over a fire fed by white picket fences and cubicle walls, and then molded the stuff into the rough shape of a sport while keeping in mind that it should require as little actual exercise and as much expensive equipment as possible.

    Armor, weaponry and wargames are fun... but as anachronisms go, I never thought that the non-fantasy medieval setting was all that creative. Evidence points to people being if anything less fun back then, and they're pretty dreadful currently. I'd rather look to the future, or discard realism altogether, if I were getting into playing pretend at such scale. Cyberpunk themed laser tag sounds like more fun to me, for example.

  6. #6
    Mr Karl's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    toronto
    Posts
    4,725

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    it would be interesting to play golf the way that it originaly started

  7. #7

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    What if you just combined the two? GolfLARP! The new adventure in golf. Golf in full plate, with axes, and crossbows! How cool would that be?

  8. #8
    bloodyxcandyxcane's Avatar Junior Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2010
    Location
    peabody, ma
    Posts
    4

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    if i'm going to play a sport (unlikely), it needs to be something fast-paced, competitive, and rough, everything golf is not. i think i would personally enjoy role playing much more.

  9. #9
    Mr Karl's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    toronto
    Posts
    4,725

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    golf isn't really a sport.....it's an activity
    Last edited by Mr Karl; 08-30-2010 at 07:54 PM. Reason: had more

  10. #10
    Mr Karl's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    toronto
    Posts
    4,725

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    it's actually not that easy either.. I actually spent ten minutes trying it out

  11. #11
    Amelia G's Avatar chick in charge
    Join Date
    May 2004
    Location
    Born in London. Lived everywhere.
    Posts
    7,181

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    I have played cyberpunk-themed laser tag. I've partied with the Tuchux at Pennzic. And I've played golf, albeit really really badly.

    Golf still seems like the most sustainable activity.

    I'd love to find a good laser tag place in or near Los Angeles though.

  12. #12
    Ajax Knucklebones's Avatar God fearing atheist
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Location
    Currently residing in my mind's eye
    Posts
    2,768

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    Quote Originally Posted by Amelia G View Post
    I have played cyberpunk-themed laser tag. I've partied with the Tuchux at Pennzic. And I've played golf, albeit really really badly.

    Golf still seems like the most sustainable activity.

    I'd love to find a good laser tag place in or near Los Angeles though.
    Sustainable because any old fart can do it and they usually have the cash to lay out to play it. I couldn't tell you HOW MANY times in my banking career
    customers have asked me if I play golf....Like it's mandatory if you're a banker. No...I don't. Nor have I ever. I think I'd rather go with Raza's idea.

  13. The following people thank you for your post:

    The Following User Says Thank You to Ajax Knucklebones For This Useful Post:

    Raza (09-02-2010)
  14. #13
    TheDeathKnight's Avatar Senior Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    San Diego
    Posts
    1,995

    Default Re: Would you rather play golf or whack your friends wearing armor?

    I do SCA stuff. Maybe once or twice a year I go to big wars. Not small tournaments.

    Sexually repressed? Really?

    I don't know what SCA event you went to, but one of the mottos of the SCA is that
    if you can't get laid in the SCA, then you can't get laid PERIOD.

    Now that's not saying that the people there are people you want to hook up with,
    but if you want to hook up, there is plenty of action happening in people's tents.
    Walk around in the middle of the night and you will hear a lot of moaning and groaning.
    One of the couples in the group I camp with usually have a full dungeon set up in their pavilion.

    Maybe I need to drag you guys out to the next big event...

+ Reply to Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
Blue Blood
Trappings | Personalities | Galleries | Entertainment | Art | Books | Music | Popcorn | Sex | Happenings | Oddities | Trade/Business | Manifesto | Media | Community
Blue Blood | Contact Us | Advertise | Submissions | About Blue Blood | Links | $Webmasters$
Interested in being a Blue Blood model, writer, illustrator, or photographer? Get in touch